MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Neema Navai is Deputy Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. A native of Michigan, Dr. Navai completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and his medical doctorate at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL where he completed his medical doctorate during which he was admitted to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Dr. Navai then completed his urology residency at Northwestern University followed by a fellowship in Urologic oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center where he then joined the faculty.
Dr. Navai provides specialized care to patients facing bladder cancer. His care model emphasizes his patient’s needs, thoughtful consideration to empathetic communication, and guiding treatment with a deep regard for their cancer goals and personal values. Dr. Navai offers robotic surgery including complex urinary reconstructions with a goal to minimize the potential negative impacts of major surgical therapy on quality of life while maintaining exemplary cancer outcomes.
As the strategic decision owner of the Virtual Care platform and Reach strategy group in the Chief Medical Executives (CME) office at MD Anderson, Dr. Navai partners with Dan Shoenthal, VP of Innovation, to oversee the strategic and operational approach to digital health. In this role Dr. Navai helps MD Anderson realize its strategic goal to provide a best-in-class telemedicine, ensuring we can meet the needs of more patients and have more impact on those served.
Dr. Navai serves on several institutional governance committees within patient care informatics and further serves our outpatient operations as the Genitourinary Center Medical Director. In these roles, he emphasizes systems-based approaches to foster best in class care, high reliability, patient safety, all in service of the mission of MD Anderson to end cancer.
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